[lucb1e]

> which will give you a working project in 2-3 hours

> you can learn React in a few hours. What's the big deal?

Assuming we are still using the same example (filling a table with some data and filtering it), I think 2-3 hours is a good example of how long it takes to write that in plain Javascript and testing it on every browser back to IE6 while having lunch in between.

[erelde]

Funny, I actually had that last year in a 2 hours midyear exam, access to Internet authorized. I was the only one to complete the exam and had the best mark, didn't use internet, just my own code lying around my pc, finished in half an hour, vanilla js/php LAMP.

But many of my class couldn't do it.

[scottmf]

For sure, but the time spent learning React would provide value for all his future projects too.

I'd probably use React for a project that simple, particularly if it needed to be maintained and expanded by others.